Notes on Third Book of Kings (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
12:28 Golden calves: It is likely, by making his gods in this form, he mimicked the Egyptians, among whom he had sojourned, who worshipped their Apis and their Osiris under the form of a bullock.
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